Visiting professor of distinguished teaching in the math department Keith Devlin said that, during his childhood, he did not intend to go into mathematics as a career. “In elementary school, I was ...

Keith Devlin is a consulting professor in Stanford's Mathematics Department and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Some biologists recognize his name because there's ...

Though generations of schoolchildren have cursed arithmetic, the world was a much more inconvenient place without it. Before the advent of modern arithmetic in the 13th century, basic calculations ...

The noble idea that advanced mathematics can be made comprehensible to laypeople is tested in this sometimes engaging but ultimately unsatisfying effort. Mathematician and NPR commentator Devlin (The ...